There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.

There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.

I'm halfway to heaven and my home in Forest HillsIt's half past eleven and I've got some time to kill.I missed my bus connection my train got in too lateAnd I'm forced into reflection by this half hour wait.

Now I have been a straight man and I've played it by the rulesI been a good man, a good husband, a good old fashioned fool.I have a fine wife and two children just like everybody's gotBut after fifteen years of marriage the fires don't burn too hot.

Ahh someone played a trick on me.They set me up so perfectlyThey Gave me their moralityAnd then changed the rules they set for me.Someone must be laughing now,Though it don't seem funny somehow,How the world's accepting nowWhat they once would not allowBack in my younger days.The world has changed in so many ways.

My mother once said to me so many years ago nowDon't you touch those bad girls, so I never had girlsUntil I had my Mary when we married.My Mary then had my two sonsMy life as a lover was already doneIt was over before it had really begun.

Ahh someone played a trick on me.They sent this little girl to me,She is my new secretaryAnd she's something to see.yeah She's a nice girl, but it's a young worldAnd she lives her life so free, and she sure gets through to me

She brings her pad into my office, she wears a sweater and a skirtAnd somewhere deep inside of me something starts to hurt.She's wearing nothing underneath, and I can see what's there to seeShe smiles and says, "You wanted me?" I'd have to agree.

You know how much I want her,And I know that I could have her.I know I could, I know she wouldMake love to me, so wonderfully.God damn, I'm one crazy mixed up mixture of a man.

In my head all my life I've been a sinner,And in my bed with just my wife I'm still a beginner,But tomorrow night I'm taking that little girl out to dinner!

There's no tick tock on your electric clockBut still your life runs down.